twitter2drive
Client: Amnesty NL
In collaboration with Artúr Andrási
Photos by Liza Szabó
#women2drive is a hashtag used to discuss the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. It was used on twitter by both people aiming to lift the ban and those wanting to keep it. The book serves as a data visualisation showing the sheer volume of tweets made since 2011 in the hashtag, how they distributed over the 7 years, illustrating the discussion and how the opinions might have been changing over time as well as before and after the ban was lifted. The final book has over 2000 pages, exhibited in the Amnesty NL 50th year anniversary event.
The book contains all of the tweets made under the #women2drive hashtag throughout the years. The tweets were later roughly translated and organized by sentiment. Left page of the spead features a portion of the tweets while the right page features one prominent tweet from the page before. In addition, the book is chronological and divided into yearly chapters, therefore, even a closed book provides data.
